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Watch video and answer questions as you go.

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Backed by AT&T and Stanford's startX, PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities.

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How to make a foam rubber band powered plane| Build a simple rubber band powered plane

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In this video, I show you how to make a rubber band powered airplane. This rubber band powered plane flies further than one side of my house to another. Build this simple rubber band powered plane and have fun! Here is another rubber band powered airplane video: https://youtu.be/lShSwKG1jb8 Music: Don't Let Me Down by Chainsmokers ft.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Write a one paragraph summary  about the video in PBL notebook

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How to Make a Rubber Band Plane Out of Paper - Very EASY

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Click on the link below (edpuzzle) watch video and answer the questions along the way.

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Make any video your lesson. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding.

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Increasing the weight of an aircraft affects the amount of lift needed. In turn, a larger wing would provide more lift, but that would increase the amount of drag and therefore increase the amount of thrust needed. The forces of flight are interconnected, and a change in one affects the others.

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Use your existing Discovery Education username and password.

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Since the beginning of time, man has watched the birds and wished for flight. But birds have light, hollow bones, strong muscles and feathers that make them designed for the air. We humans have heavy bones, weaker muscles and no feathers. We're not made for flight. People dreamed about flying anyway.

The Chinese invented kites around 400 A.D. They used the kites in weather experiments and religious ceremonies. Kites helped scientists understand how wind currents work. In 1485, Leonardo DaVinci drew pictures of flying machines. One of his inventions, the ornithopter, gave modern scientists the idea for the helicopter.

Many other people experimented with flight, but it wasn't until 1903 that the Wright Brothers built the first successful airplane. During World War 1, governments built war planes for fighting. After the war, commercial airlines began building airplanes to carry people and for transportation. Today, airplanes carry us all over the world.

Fun Facts about Airplanes and Flight for Kids

Brothers Joseph and Jacque Montgolfier invented the first hot air balloons in 1783. The first hot air balloon carried a sheep, a rooster and a duck for a mile.

George Cayley built the first gliders in 1799. His gliders floated on air currents, but couldn't go long distances. Over the next 50 years, Cayley improved his designs. His early work helped later inventors understand the laws of flight.

Otto Lienthal created the first gliders that could go longer distances and carry people. He wrote a book on aerodynamics that helped the Wright Brothers in their inventions.

Airplanes and Flight Vocabulary

1. Hollow: empty in the middle

2. Ceremony: special event or party

3. Commercial: made by companies who charge a fee for their services or products

4. Aerodynamics: the study of air, wind currents and flight

Learn More All About Airplanes and Flight

Learn from this fun video:

A cartoon video all about airplanes and how they fly.

AirplaneS and Flight Q&A

Question: How are airplanes powered?

Answer: Airplanes have an engine or propellers that move them forward, a process known as thrust. At the same time, gravity (weight) pulls the plane down, while friction (drag) slows it down. When the plane gets enough thrust to overcome weight and drag, it lifts off the ground. The wings of a plane have an aerofoil shape that helps the plane overcome gravity.

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Facts About Airplanes and Flight for Kids

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Since the beginning of time, man has watched the birds and wished for flight. But birds have light, hollow bones, strong muscles and feathers that make them designed for the air. We humans have heavy bones, weaker muscles and no feathers. We're not made for flight. People dreamed about flying anyway.

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Airplane Facts for Kids

Check out our fun airplane facts for kids and enjoy learning about different aircraft.

Find information on commercial planes, drones, wings, engines, the history of flight and much more. Read on for a wide range of interesting trivia and information related to airplanes.

Airplanes are fixed-wing aircraft that are propelled through the air by engines.

They are used for transportation, recreation, research and military purposes.

Engines provide the thrust needed to move a plane forward, overcoming drag and allowing the wings to create lift.

Aircraft wings feature a shape called an airfoil which is designed to create lift as the plane moves through the air.

The long, thin body of an aircraft is typically called the fuselage.

Pilots usually control the plane from a cockpit located at the front of the fuselage.

Some aircraft (usually military or experimental) are capable of supersonic flight (breaking the sound barrier) by traveling at speeds faster than sound (1235kph, 768mph).

There have only been two commercial aircraft capable of supersonic transport, the most well known of these was the Concorde which flew between major cities such as London, New York and Paris until 2003.

It took Concorde just three and a half hours to travel from New York to Paris while it took other commercial aircraft around eight hours.

Unmanned aircraft controlled remotely or by computers are known as drones.

American aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright (The Wright Brothers), are believed to be have created the first successful airplane.

Learn more about the principles of flying with our flight facts for kids.

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Fun Airplane Facts for Kids - Interesting Information about Planes

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Airplane Facts for Kids Check out our fun airplane facts for kids and enjoy learning about different aircraft. Find information on commercial planes, drones, wings, engines, the history of flight and much more. Read on for a wide range of interesting trivia and information related to airplanes.

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Fun Flight Facts for Kids

Check out our fun flight facts for kids and learn how planes fly as well as interesting information about aviation history, the Wright Brothers, animals that fly and much more.

Find out about supersonic flight, the forces involved with flying, lift created by an airfoil, airships and even flying fish! Read on and enjoy all our cool facts related to the world of flight.

While birds have been flying for millions of years, it's something relatively new to humans and we rely on some important scientific principles to achieve it.

Beginning with simple kites, humans have moved on to develop gliders, airships, helicopters, commercial planes and even supersonic flight.

Supersonic flight (breaking the sound barrier) is achieved when an object travels at a speed faster than sound (1235kph, 768mph).

The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were American aviation pioneers who created the first successful airplane, thanks in part to their invention of 3-axis control, enabling the pilot to effectively control the plane.

While a number of flight pioneers were working on their own powered flight at the time (including New Zealand's Richard Pearse) the Wright Brothers are widely credited with the first controlled and sustained human flight on December 17, 1903.

Planes have wings that feature an airfoil (aerofoil) shape, this is important as it helps overcome the effect of gravity pulling down on the plane.

The wing creates lift as it moves through the air, a process that can be explained by Bernoulli's principle. Because of the airfoil shape, air flows faster over the top than the bottom, creating higher pressure underneath the wing which then pushes the plane up through the lower air pressure.

Disturbed air and friction create drag as the plane moves forward, slowing it down.

An engine provides thrust to move the plane forward at a speed great enough to overcome drag and allow the wings to create the lift necessary to fly.

Airships and blimps are lighter than air and use buoyancy for flight. They are typically filled with gas (such as helium) that is less dense than the surrounding atmosphere.

The only living things capable of powered flight are insects, birds and bats.

While some can glide, bats are the only mammals that can achieve sustained level flight.

Flying fish have been known to glide for hundreds of metres thanks to enlarged fins that act like wings. Check out this cool flying fish video!

And if you really want to be amazed check out a gliding snake in action!

For more on flight check out our cool flight lesson plans or try making a parachute.

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Fun Flight Facts for Kids - How Planes Fly, Wright Brothers, Aviation Information

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Fun Flight Facts for Kids Check out our fun flight facts for kids and learn how planes fly as well as interesting information about aviation history, the Wright Brothers, animals that fly and much more. Find out about supersonic flight, the forces involved with flying, lift created by an airfoil, airships and even flying fish!

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5. Slide presentation with vocabulary words

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5. Slide presentation with vocabulary words

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Create a presentation giving examples of the following vocabulary words: (See rubric below)
Weight, Thrust, Drag, Lift
All these words have to do with flight so make sure you tie them into this concept.

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See Mrs. Toth for the materials needed to complete this exploration. Also answer the following questions on your pbl notebook.
1. When a bowling ball and basketball are traveling the same speed, which has more kinetic energy?
2. Do you have more kinetic energy when you run uphill or walk uphill?

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After watching the video, write a one paragraph summarizing the main idea of the video. Google assignment posted in PBL classroom under summary of lift video.

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STEM Lesson: Paper Airplanes - Lift, Weight, Thrust, Drag & Design

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CSI: Flight Adventure's Forces of Flight - GameUp - BrainPOP.

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In this free science and engineering game, students learn the basic forces of flight by designing an airplane that balances weight, lift, drag and thrust.

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Due 3/10
Use the following resources to answer the questions in your pbl notebook.
1. What is energy?
2. What is mechanical energy?
3. Where can you find mechanical energy?
4. What are 3 examples of mechanical energy?